Tabla de contenidos para Issue 3 en MacBook & macOS The Complete Manual

macOS Ventura has some awesome new features for your MacBook, and we’re here to tell you all about them. Over the following pages, we bring you tip-top tutorials and plain-English guides to Apple’s latest Mac operating system, its bundled apps and its advanced features. For beginners, we show you how to set up your MacBook out of the box, and get to grips with its key functions such as Finder, trackpad gestures and the Dock. Our guides to Ventura’s key apps cover both the basics and their advanced features. Look out for guides to the Safari web browser, Mail email client and FaceTime for audio and video chats. We cover Ventura’s’s brand new features too, like Continuity Camera, Passkeys, Stage Manager and more. With our help, you’ll soon be using…

Setting Up Touch ID 1 First of all, open the System Settings window. Click on Touch ID & Password. If this option isn’t there, your Mac doesn’t have the Touch ID feature. 2 To get started, click on the + icon captioned ‘Add Fingerprint’. You can add more than one print to Touch ID if you wish; here, this is our second. 3 Type your admin password when asked, the one you use to unlock your Mac. As instructed, you must now place the finger you intend to register on the Touch ID sensor, on the top-right of the keyboard. 4 Keep raising and lifting your finger. As you can see, the grey fingerprint in the window gradually turns red, as Touch ID reads, analyses and records your fingerprint. Keep doing this until…

One of the things that makes the Mac such a pleasure to use is its large and responsive MacBook multi-touch trackpad or the desktop Mac’s Magic Trackpad. You can use the trackpad in much the same way as you would use the touchscreen of an iPhone or iPad: to quickly and easily access menus, sort through stacks of pictures or documents, scroll through documents and to zoom in and out of displayed images. Once you get used to it, you’ll find that it’s a very easy and intuitive way of controlling your Mac and that it can do far more than just scrolling. Secondary Clicking. Some people like to use a two-button mouse with their Mac, and this can be handy for quick access to shortcut menus by secondary clicking…

Connecting with Wi-Fi 1 Make sure that your Mac is within range of your wireless router’s Wi-Fi signal, then click on the Wi-Fi icon in the top menu bar. You’ll see a list of Wi-Fi networks. If your Wi-Fi is off click the switch to turn it on. 2 You’ll see a list of Wi-Fi networks available in your area. A lock to the right shows a password is required to join it. Click on the network you wish to join, whether it’s your own router or a public Wi-Fi in a cafe or bar. 3 If a password is required (it probably is), a window appears. Enter the password here. If you’re setting up at home, the password is probably supplied with your router. Your Mac then joins the network, and remembers…

Accessing Your Applications from the Dock Add or Remove an Application To add an app, first click the icon filled with multicoloured boxes on the left-hand side of the Dock to bring up Launchpad. Then, click and drag the item you want onto the Dock. To remove it, just drag it out. Open an Application To open an application that’s in your Dock, simply move the mouse pointer onto the Dock and click on its icon. Notice that the app icon slightly bounces as the application opens before the main app opens. Move an Application To move an item to a new location in the Dock, click and drag to the required position. As you move the item the adjacent applications will move aside to allow you to drop the…

Using Spotlight’s Features 1 Press cmd-space bar or click the magnifying glass in the top menu to open Spotlight. You can drag this window to wherever you want on the screen. Type your search query into Spotlight and answers appear, with suggestions based on the contents of your computer as well as other sources. 2 Spotlight can do conversions. To convert from imperial to metric (or vice versa) type in the number and a type of unit, such as kilograms or pounds and then click the chevron next to the top result. Spotlight offers other commonly used units. It works in a similar way with distances and lengths. 3 To do currency conversions, type in a number and currency unit, such as dollars or pounds, click the chevron and Spotlight gives you the…

From The App Store 1 Downloading new apps from the Mac App Store is the easiest way to get new software for your Mac. First open the App Store app; you can use the Apple menu to open this particular app, or the Dock, Launchpad or Apps folder. 2 You can use the Search field to look for an app by its name, what it does and more, or simply navigate the App Store using the categories in the left-hand sidebar. Note the filters, opened by clicking the chevron in the top right too. 3 Scroll up and down for more apps. If button to the right displays a price, that’s how much it costs. If it says ‘Get’, it’s free, but might offer in-app purchases. A cloud symbol means you already bought…

1 Before you can make use of the Home app, you have to add HomeKit compatible devices. You can only do this from an iOS device, you can’t use your Mac. There’s a list of HomeKit compatible devices online at www.apple.co/2MFjhb3. 2 After adding some devices using your iOS device, you can access them through Home on the Mac. Right-click a device’s window and click the cog (bottom-right) for the Settings, and you can change the room they’re assigned to. 3 Click Automation in the sidebar and you can set timers, actions and more. What they do depends on what kit you’ve incorporated into your Home app. Click the + icon to add automations or groups of automations (scenes). 4 For example, you can use the Home app to control and configure speakers that…

1 Use this button to toggle between regular thumbnails of your photos, as seen here, and square-shaped images that leave little border. 2 This slider increases and decreases the size of your preview images. Use these buttons to view your 3 photos arranged according to the year, month, or day in which they were taken. 4 Click here to see all your photographs in the Photos app, arranged as thumbnails. Double-click on a thumbnail to open a photo. 5 Select or open a photo and then click the ‘i’ for the information window. Here you can review and edit where and when it was taken, add captions and more. 6 The Share button lets you add the picture to shared albums, send it using Mail, AirDrop, Messages and more, add it to Notes or Reminders…

1 This is your search field. Use it to search throughout your reminders. 2 This is the Reminders app’s front page, showing smart lists as well as the lists you’ve created yourself. A ‘list’ is a group of reminders you’ve set up and can be titled anything you like. 3 Click the plus sign to add a reminder to the open list. Call it anything you like. It appears in that list until you mark it as done. 4 These are smart lists. Click one to open it. ‘Today’ is reminders scheduled for that day. This list is divided into Morning, Afternoon and Tonight. ‘Scheduled’ shows reminders due in the future. This is now organised into months, and days for those due this week. ‘All lists all your reminders and ‘Flagged’ shows those that…

Using FaceTime 1 Click on the FaceTime app to launch the program. It should start straight away, and you’ll see your own face on the screen, as well as a panel inviting you to log in with your Apple ID. Type in your Apple ID password and click OK. 2 Before you make a video call, it’s a good idea to make sure they can see you properly. Using the camera view shown here, make sure there are no distracting bright lights behind you and your face is well lit. 3 Before you make a video call, it’s a good idea to make sure they can see you properly. Using the camera view shown here, make sure there are no distracting bright lights behind you and your face is well…

1 To open Stage Manager for the first time, click the Control Centre icon in the menu bar (the one that looks like two switches), and in the Control Centre window that appears, click the box titled ‘Stage Manager.’ 2 You’re now shown a screen that explains the new feature of Stage Manager, and invites you to switch it on. Click Turn on Stage Manager to open it, and you see all your open windows move to a space on the left of the desktop. 3 Click on a window on the left, and it’s brought to the fore. Click on an app icon in the Dock and it opens. If a window is too close to the left side of the desktop to allow Stage Manager to be seen,…

1 From the Apple menu you can log out, shut down, restart or put the computer into sleep mode, get comprehensive information on the computer’s hardware and software, access the System Settings and open items you’ve recently closed. 2 The menu bar running along the top of the desktop gives access to functions and controls for the app you currently have open at the time. The app currently in use is shown to the right of the Apple icon. In this case it’s Finder. Open or click on an app and its name is shown here instead; and its menus are listed in the menu bar. 3 The Command Centre is where you can access Bluetooth, Wi-Fi settings, display brightness, volume, Stage Manager, Screen Mirroring and much more. 4 Application windows come in all…

Dark Mode 1 From the Apple menu, open System Settings. In the left-hand column, click on Appearance, the second option in the list. At the top of the right-hand section are the Light, Dark, and Auto buttons. Dark and Light buttons switch to those modes, and Auto lets you schedule the changes. 2 With Dark Mode on, the colours are subdued or reversed in Finder, windows, the Mac’s built-in apps and more. Third-party apps can be built to take advantage of Dark Mode too. If you find it more comfortable to work on a darker screen, this is excellent news. Night Shift Mode 1 From the Apple menu, open System Preferences. Click on the Displays pane and then on the Night Shift button. From here you can schedule Night Shift Mode to run…

The Apple Menu 1 The Apple menu is always found in the top-left corner of Ventura’s desktop. To open it, click on the Apple icon once, then choose an option. This menu is always there, whatever it is that you’re doing on your Mac. 2 Choose About This Mac for a window showing you technical information about your computer. Clicking More Info… lets you delve further, looking at its Display, Storage and more; and you can get a full System Report by clicking the System Report button too. 3 The System Settings option opens the Mac’s System Settings, which we discuss later in this book. 4 This option opens the App Store. If updates are available for your Mac or any of its apps. 5 Hover your pointer over the Recent Items option to see…

Moving notifications to the Date and Time and combining them with widgets is a clever move on the part of Apple. All you need to do to view your notifications is to click on the Date and Time in the top-right of the desktop. If there are any, they appear at the top of the slide-in area that appears from the right-side of the screen. Notifications are grouped together depending on the app they’re coming from. For example, the News app displays notifications based on what news channels you’ve decided can send alerts to you. If you click on a notification in the group, the rest expand so you can see all the available notifications of that group. And clicking on a notification, whether it’s from Messages, News and so…

Using Launchpad 1 To open the Launchpad, go to the Dock and click on it, or place four fingers on your trackpad and bring them together. The screen darkens and your apps are shown as icons. To launch an app from this screen, click on it. To close Launchpad, press Esc or click on the desktop. 2 If you have more than one page of apps, move between them by swiping left and right with two fingers or hold cmd and use the arrow keys. Click and hold on an app and an ‘X’ appears in the top left corner; click ‘X’ to delete. Not all apps can be deleted in this way. 3 You can arrange your apps into folders on Launchpad too, just like on an iOS and iPadOS Home screen.…

1 This icon opens and closes the sidebar on the left. 2 Here you see how many tabs you currently have open in Safari. A chevron to the right shows and hides all those tabs in a list here in the sidebar. 3 This icon gives you a menu that lets you make a Tab Group of the tabs you currently have open, or start a new, empty Tab Group to which you can add tabs manually. 4 These two chevrons are your navigation controls, which let you move forward and backward through your browsing history. 5 These icons are for Safari Extensions you’ve added. 6 A lot of websites use trackers to track your browsing and to target advertising. The Shield icon lets you see what trackers have attempted to track you, and lets you…

In macOS Ventura, there are new music notifications, and recommendations that keep you in touch with bands, artists and genres you’re interested in are improved. 1 When you’re using the Music app, the top bar gives you pull-down menus offering controls and options. It’s worthwhile familiarising yourself with them. 2 Completion suggestions are offered as you type, and results can be limited to Apple Music, or your on-Mac library, as you wish. Results include artists, songs, albums and more. 3 These are, in turn, Shuffle Tracks, Previous track, Play/Pause, Next track, Repeat Play. 4 When you’re playing music, the album art, artist and title are shown here. Click on the album art to switch to the mini player, which shows the album art and controls only and takes up much less space on the…

Managing and Maintaining Contacts 1 This guide shows you to how to add new contacts to your Contacts address book, edit existing ones and share a completed contact card with other people. To create a new contact card, click on the plus button in the bottom left of the current card. Select New Contact from the window that pops up and you’re given a blank card to fill in. 2 To add details, click on the field and then type in the information. After entering a phone number or address, another blank is offered, in case you want to add a second one. Click on the name of the detail (in blue) for a pop-up window that lets you change it. When you’re finished, click Done. To change or add information to…

Setting Up Messages 1 When you first open Messages, you might need to sign in with your Apple ID’s email and password. If you’re not asked to do so, you’re already signed in. Select Settings from the Messages menu in the top bar, or press cmd-comma on your keyboard. The Settings window appears. 2 Click the iMessage tab and ensure the email address associated with your Apple ID is enabled. Set more than one email address and phone number, so messages sent to them appear on your Mac. Check the Enable Messages in the iCloud box, to sync Messages with your other Apple gear. 3 Once you’re signed in, click back to the General tab and click on the Set up Name and Photo Sharing button. This opens a setup wizard that guides…

Finding Places with Maps 1 To focus the view on your current location, click the arrow icon in the toolbar. The map zooms to your current whereabouts. To search for a specific location, type the address, postcode/zip code or road name into the search field. Possible matches are shown as you type. 2 You can search for a business by entering the business name or type, for example ‘Fast Food’, into the search field. Icons appear on the map indicating all matching businesses in the area. To get more information, click on an icon, then on any relevant information that accompanies it. Getting and Using Traffic Information When on a road journey, there’s nothing worse than getting caught up in a traffic jam or running into major roadworks. Luckily, Maps…

1 This is the front page of the Stocks app, that is, what you see when you open it for the first time. If you’ve already saved some stocks using the iPhone or iPad version of the Stocks app, they’re synced in iCloud and shown in the sidebar. 2 To find a company and see its current share price, type either its name or its ‘ticker’ – a four-letter abbreviation of the company’s name used by the stock market – in the Search bar. Click the company in the search results. 3 As well as seeing the company’s current share price (top right), you also get a graph showing the fluctuating stock value over time. Drag your mouse over the graph to find the price at a certain time on…

To open the App Store, click the Apple menu and select App Store. Alternatively, you can use the Ventura Launchpad or the App Store icon found in the Dock. 1 If you know the name of the application you’re looking for, type it in the Search Bar to go straight to it. Suggestions are offered as you type, so click on one to select it. You can search for developers here too. 2 Click on Discover for the App Store’s main page, where you can see Apple’s picks of the best and most essential apps for your Mac. 3 For a monthly fee, Apple’s all-you-can-eat Arcade gaming subscription service lets you play as many games as you want, for as long as you want. 4 Click Create to look for…

1 First, you might see this window, inviting you to choose the language you use to set up your Mac. The most popular languages are at the top of the list, but if you want to use an alternative one, scroll up until you find it, click on it and then click the arrow (bottom right). 2 Now you must choose your territory, that is, where you live and will be using your Mac. You can scroll the list of countries up and down to find your own, or start to type it to get there quicker. Click your country to highlight your choice, then click Continue. 3 Now select your Mac’s language and input source. The default ones for your chosen territory are offered, but if you want to change them, click…

Choose New Wallpaper 1 Click the Apple menu, select System Settings and select the Wallpaper option. Use the pull-down to set a Light, Dark or Automatic paper. ‘Automatic’ changes between light and dark according to the time of day. 2 Choose the image you’d like to use for your wallpaper and click on it. If there’s a cloud in the corner, click on it first to download the image. The desktop is updated immediately. Keep it or choose another one. Use an Image from Your Photos Library Open the Wallpaper options: Apple menu > System Settings > Wallpaper. Available pictures from your Photos app are shown at the foot of the window. Scroll them left and right, or click Show All to display them all. Explore your photo images, and then choose…

1 From the Apple menu, open System Settings. Click ‘Displays’ on the left and then on the Night Shift button. From here you can schedule Night Shift Mode to run from sunrise to sunset or during custom times; or you can simply turn it on using the ‘Turn on until tomorrow’ switch. 2 From the View menu, select the Use Stacks option. Your files are stacked on the right-hand side of your desktop, according to their type. For example, images are stacked together, as are documents. To turn this off again go to View and click Use Stacks. 3 To open a stack on your desktop, click on it. The items contained in that stack are revealed, allowing you to access and open individual files. To close a stack again, click on the…

1 Window Control Options: Use the gumdrops to close or minimise the window or open it in full-screen mode. We’ll cover this on the next page. 2 Navigation Controls: The chevron buttons in the top left corner of the window take you forwards or backwards through your navigation history. 3 View Options: These four buttons let you set-up how you view the files and folders in the Finder window; whether as icons, a list, in columns or as a cover flow which gives you a much larger visual preview. 4 Item Arrangement List: Click on the button shown here to order the contents of the window; according to date, alphabetically and more. 5 Perform Tasks: The Perform Tasks icon enables you to perform certain tasks within the folder or highlighted file, such as create a…

First Steps with Widgets 1 To access your widgets, click on the clock and date in the top-right corner of the screen. The widgets are found underneath the notifications. You can scroll the notifications and widgets up and down with two fingers on a trackpad. 2 Click on a widget to open the app that created it, or in some cases, the website from where its information is drawn. Here we clicked on a story taken from the News app, which opened that story in the application itself. 3 You can drag widgets out of their current position and drop them into a new place, just like you do with app icons in Launchpad. Reorder them to suit; maybe move the most used widgets to the top of the column. 4 Right-click on a…

Setting Up Your iCloud Email 1 If you set up your Apple ID during your Mac’s initial setup, or if you signed in with an existing Apple ID, your iCloud email account is already in place. But if not, or if you want to add another iCloud email account to your Mail client, follow these instructions. 2 Open the Mail application from the Dock and then under the Mail drop-down menu found in the left of the menu bar, click on the Add Account… link. From the pop-up menu that appears, select the iCloud link and then click on the Continue button to go to the next step. 3 Now enter the Apple ID for the iCloud email account you want to add to your Mail app, and then the password. When you…

1 This is the sidebar, which lets you select mailboxes, see emails from VIP senders or those which you’ve flagged, and more. You can resize and even close this sidebar by clicking and dragging the divider between this and your emails list. 2 The list of emails contained in the currently selected mailbox, in this case, All Mailboxes. The number of emails in the box, and the number of unread emails, are shown. You can resize this column by clicking and dragging its left or right edge. 3 Click this circular icon to toggle between showing all emails and only unread emails. 4 This button downloads new emails. You can set your Mail app to check automatically but this button does so manually. 5 When you want to write a new email from scratch, click…

1 When you first open the News app, you see a sidebar and a main window. The sidebar’s Today option is selected, giving you a range of the day’s top stories. Click on a story to open it and read it in full. 2 When you open a news story, if it has a video it can be watched within the News app. In the File menu, there’s an option to open the story in Safari. This takes you to the web page from which the story was drawn. 3 The Special Coverage section gives you a selection of features chosen by Apple’s editors. If you find a story you particularly like or dislike, use the thumbs up/down icons in the top-right corner to improve future suggestions. 4 In the sidebar section titled ‘Suggested…

Changing the View 1 There are several different ways to view your calendars. To move between Day, Week, Month and Year views, you can use the corresponding buttons that appear in the top bar of the Calendar application. 2 The Year view shows you a complete year in a single window. Clicking on the title bar for any month takes you to its Month view. Double-click a specific day in either Year, Week or Month view to open its page in the Day view. 3 Click the Calendars button (top left) to open and close the sidebar, as shown here. This sidebar is visible regardless of whether you’re in Day, Week, Month or Year view and lets you mute or reveal individual calendars and more. 4 Click the Today button in the top right…

First Steps with Books 1 The Books app’s sidebar is divided into three sections; Apple Books shows what you’re reading now and offers two shop options; Library lets you view your book collection; In My Collections, you can organise them into categories. 2 If you’re already a Books user on your iPad or iPhone, you can access your books by clicking the All option under Library. Here you can see your book collection. Books not currently on your Mac have a cloud under the cover. 3 Click on a cloud, or the three-dots icon next to it, for options to download a book to your Mac, delete it from your Mac (it remains on iCloud, so you can download it again later) or add it to Library categories like Want to Read. 4 Click…

Accessing the System Settings in Ventura As long as you read up on what you’re adjusting before making any changes, delving into System Settings is not a scary experience, and it can make using your Mac a lot more enjoyable. There are several ways to open the System Settings interface. You can click on the Apple icon in the top left corner of the screen and select System Settings, click on the Dock icon showing cogs on a silver square or open it from the Launchpad or Applications folder. Opening System Settings reveals a window with a list of categories in a left-hand sidebar, each representing a different area of options you can configure. Wherever you are in System Settings, this sidebar remains in place so you can open another…